Ben Taggart Movies

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Travis

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marian Marsh

In the office of Mr. Lee, a talent agent, Zeppo bursts through the door, proclaiming to be a great musical actor. He gives a terrible impression of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zeppo Marx

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edith Fellows

Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Charles Middleton

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Bennett

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gary Cooper

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Groucho Marx

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Boris Karloff

Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thelma Todd

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land...

Genre: Action

Cast: Warner Baxter

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Melvyn Douglas

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fred MacMurray

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Sanders

The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Allen

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wallace Beery

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Bennett

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Lon Chaney Jr.

When his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged with attempted murder when the other man drew first....

Genre: Music

Cast: Bill Elliott

Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gilbert

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Cromwell

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gordon Jones

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rochelle Hudson

Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe. Riding into a small town,...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Starrett

Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley....

Genre: Music

Cast: Charles Starrett

June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.

Genre: War

Cast: Carole Landis

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Billy Halop

A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Buster Crabbe

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Linden

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fredric March

When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Harlow

After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone....

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chester Morris

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chester Morris

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Warren William

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Joan Blondell

Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are...

Genre: Western

Cast: Lon Chaney Jr.

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lee Tracy

A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Neal

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Don Terry

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Byrd

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wayne Morris

A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Harmon

When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Brian Donlevy

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gertrude Michael

When Bill Fowler decided to wed the wealthy widow, Isabel Dare, of Rye, N.Y., he gave a bachelor dinner. And the dinner degenerated into a quiet game...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Bickel

In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Helene Chadwick

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Alexander

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

Genre: Music

Cast: Don Ameche

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sothern

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kent Taylor

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the...

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Starrett

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitzi Green

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George P. Breakston

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joan Blondell

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Oakie

Oh Boy! 1919 film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Caprice

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frank Morgan

Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack La Rue

It's 1861 and Buck gets the business men of Sacramento to establish the Pony express. Hawley runs the stage line over the same route and has the U....

Genre: Western

Cast: Buck Jones

Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Billy Halop

A centuries-lasting relationship between Ayesha and her oft-reincarnated true love. She, H. Rider Haggard's fanciful novel about the immortal queen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valeska Suratt

A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warren William

An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.

Genre: Action

Cast: John Howard

In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lake

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Victor McLaglen

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Howard

Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Marian Marsh

A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wynne Gibson

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Murphy

Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chester Lauck